Quotes about taste

The taste of love is always amazing even when it’s bitter

The taste of your life depends on the spices you used to brew it. Add laziness to it and it becomes bitter as the bile put a cube of good attitudes into it and you will lick your lips more and more due to its sweet taste.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

Taste may change, but inclination never.

It's when you smell the breeze taste the salt and feel the waves beneath your feet that you truly know that you are alive.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad fails is not strong enough to appreciate in what the good succeeds. To be without discrimination is to be unable to praise. The critic who lets you know that he always looks for something to like in works he discusses is not telling you anything about the works or about art he is saying 'see what a nice person I am.

If I saw my father's dead, great grand mother's dead and many other people's dead... So I can see and your's dead, I just see the planet without you. I just feel it, taste it, - it hurts me from this but this is the truth.

Do you feel it?Do you taste it??...That's going to be awesome nightmare!

It took the mountain top, it seems to me now, to give me the sensation of independence. It was as if I'd discovered something I'd never tasted before in my short life. Or rediscovered it - for I associated it with the taste of water that came out of the well, accompanied with the ring of that long metal sleeve against the sides of the living mountain, as from deep down it was wound up to view brimming and streaming long drops behind it like bright stars on a ribbon. It thrilled me to drink from

Some people's taste is to an educated taste as is the visual impression received by a purblind eye to that of a normal eye. Where a normal eye will see something clearly articulated, a weak eye will see a blurred patch of colour.

One might trouble one's dainty snout with a whiff of the taleggio displayed in an artisanal cheese shop, or take a saucer of jasmine tea and a knuckle of fennel-scented snuff at a counter of buffed Big Nothing granite. But there was a want in these ladies yet, and it was for the rude life of youth.

Now I myself, I cheerfully admit, feel that enormity in Kensington Gardens as something quite natural. I feel it so because I have been brought up, so to speak, under its shadow; and stared at the graven images of Raphael and Shakespeare almost before I knew their names; and long before I saw anything funny in their figures being carved, on a smaller scale, under the feet of Prince Albert. I even took a certain childish pleasure in the gilding of the canopy and spire, as if in the golden palace

When you kiss me,your lips upon mine,your kisses taste so sweet,just like a glass of good wine.

A sailor's love for the sea is only matched by his mistress's salty kiss.

I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me.

Had a person attempted to taste me so soon after we met, I would have been alarmed; but since Athena was an octopus, I was thrilled. Although we couldn’t have been more different — I, a terrestrial vertebrate constrained by joints and bound to air; she, a marine mollusk with not a single bone, who breathed water — she was clearly as curious about me as I was about her.

revenge is only sweet to those whom rancor have distorted their taste.

The taste of moon is like honey to all honeymooners, but after some years does the moon's scar make it bitter?

The taste of moon's song.

I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have therefore taken a singular course to reconcile my ideas with the exigencies of Academy rules. They ask me for something religious: very well, I shall do something religious, but of the pagan religion. . . . I have always read the ancient pagans with infinite pleasure, while in Christian writers I find only system, egoism, intolerance, and a complete lack of artistic taste.

Today, Chanel sells nothing other than its griffe; the griffe is an absolute symbol for 'fashion' which, having become historical, is now able to sell this history better than it could sell fashion. Chanel's lasting success proves that fashion has become self-referential: the fetish of the mere name shows how it has begun to revolve around itself. The House of Chanel produces what Coco most abhorred: a thing of the past, dead. The visible, outwardly displayed griffe has become the opposite of in

Taste is a mystery.

These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

Edith (the future Mrs. Teddy Roosevelt) developed a lifelong devotion to drama and poetry. "I have gone back to Shakespeare, as I always do," she would write seven decades later.

The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.

The aroma of the food may not have any connotation with it's taste and the nutrients it contains

Increase is so natural that it starts from before we taste the first breath of life at birth

It was as though he had secrets, and he wanted you to know he would keep them for the pleasure of depriving you of their taste.

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

I am an acquired taste. Do with that what you will.

He had his choice, and he liked the worst.

All this security and prospects are different for different people. Somebody is happy playing music and with a less pay, somebody is secure in the corporate world with a high pay with headache. We have individual tastes, tastes are not universal.

We choose our favourite author as we do our friend, from a conformity of humour and disposition. Mirth or passion, sentiment or reflection; whichever of these most predominates in our temper, it gives us a peculiar sympathy with the writer who resembles us.

I’m looking for youinto that silverspoon where I taste my reflection to feel the touch of your untouchables- from the poem "Looking For You

The truth shall set you free only if you cherish the taste of freedom. John 8:31-32

Americans appreciate bad taste or America wouldn’t look the way America does.

The best is always worth waiting for. And once you taste it, no other taste will do.

Why am I impatient I am unsure for what is patience? And why should I ultimately feel that I am lacking in it. Is it timing? Waiting? Abstaining? Obligation? Longing? Torture? Perseverance? Discipline? Wanting? Someone recently referred to it as a staring contest between yourself, fate, god and chance. He also referred to it as a tease, a flirt. It's staring at her image when you want to hear her voice, feel her breath, taste her skin. Patience is the recovery from a really hot dream interrupte

the toilet is an intimacyonly shared with parents when you are youngand once again when they are olderand with lovers when say on a Sundaymorning stretching into the bathroomyou wake to the sound of stream into bowland go to hug the naked bodystood with its back to you and kiss the neckand taste the whole of the night on thereand smell the morning’s pale yellow lossand take the whole of him in your handand feel the water moving through himand knowing that this is love the prone fleshwhat we expe

Your love is not really love until you waste it, a kiss is never a kiss until you taste it..

Every cuisine has its characteristic 'flavor principle,' Rozin contends, whether it is tomato-lemon-oregano in Greece; lime-chili in Mexico; onion-lard-paprika in Hungary, or, in Samin's Moroccan dish, cumin-coriander-cinnamon-ginger-onion-fruit. (And in America? Well, we do have Heinz ketchup, a flavor principle in a bottle that kids, or their parents, use to domesticate every imaginable kind of food. We also now have the familiar salty-umami taste of fast food, which I would guess is based on

Such competence is not necessarily acquired by means of the 'scholastic' labours in which some 'cinephiles' or 'jazz-freaks' indulge. Most often it results from the unintentional learning made possible by a disposition acquired through domestic or scholastic inculcation of legitimate culture. This transposable disposition, armed with a set of perceptual and evaluative schemes that are available for general application, inclines its owner towards other cultural experiences and enables him to perc

In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we kill to live. Taste is what carries us across that rocky moral terrain, what makes the horror palatable, and the paradox we could not defend by reason melts into a jungle of sweet temptations.

At first people ate simply because they were alive and because food was tasty. Modern people have come to think that if they do not prepare food with elaborate seasonings, the meal will be tasteless. If you do not try to make food delicious, you will find that nature has made it so.

It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.

You're the ruler of the universe. Try to show a little taste!

There are neither raptures, nor ecstasies, nor transports of bliss in the pleasures of the table; but they make up in duration what they lose in intensity, and are distinguished above all by the merit of inclining us towards all the other pleasures of life, or at least of consoling us for the loss of them.

Taste is the most unexplored sense

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

The reason is that you eat too many foods that are high in "calories," which are little units that measure how good a particular food tastes. Fudge, for example, has a great many calories, whereas celery, which is not really a food at all but a member of the plywood family, provided by Mother Nature so that mankind would have a way to get onion dip into his mouth at parties, has none.

This is the body's nurse; but since man's witFound the art of cookery, to delight his sense,More bodies are consumed and kill'd with itThan with the sword, famine, or pestilence.

If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When people say, for example, that they like their veal or hot dogs too much to ever give them up, and yeah it's sad about the farms but that's just the way it is, reason hears in that the voice of gluttony. We can say that what makes a human being human is precisely the ability to understand that the suffering of an animal is more important than the taste of a treat.

Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste.

Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.

Why shan't I cheat when every girl has a different taste?

After you, it's all cheap tequila.

The infant New York Times boasted that no newspaper printing what was really worth reading ever perished for lack of readers.

The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like.

The work is at such a high level and is so well executed, it really is a matter of taste... [Source: Project Runway — but consider, applied to the theme of book reviews, it seems apropos!]

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels.

Talking is like playing on the harp there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

It is good taste and good taste alone that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Taste is the feminine of genius.

Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Fashion exists for women with no taste etiquette for people with no breeding.

People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever or amiable.

We all have some taste or other of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one.

Good taste and humour are a contradiction in terms like a chaste whore.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.

Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.

Everyone to his taste.

My tastes are aristocratic my actions democratic.

A man's palate can in time become accustomed to anything.

Good taste is the flower of good sense.

The finer impulse of our nature.

Every man as he loveth quoth the good man when he kissed the cow.

I am Jewish, but I love Christmas, as most Jews with any taste do, because Hanukkah is lame.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourmet Butcher Block brought it by, and I had never heard of it or had seen one, and they put it in the booth, and it smelled so good that I had to taste it. And it was good. Then Thanksgiving came, and we got one in addition to the traditional turkey.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Hey, I used to eat at McDonald's: I liked the taste of the food, especially the French fries.

It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I've always thought it isn't that different from everybody else's.